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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Hanumangarh district of western Rajasthan, once considered a
bastion of the Left under leadership of legendary communist and Kisan
leader Com. Sheopat Singh appears to be seeing a sort of revival of
fortunes. For the elections slated on 1st December, the
CPI(M) is contesting all the five assembly seats in this district. This
also includes the mainly urban Hanumangarh seat, held more than once by
Com Sheopat Singh himself. After a break of ten years, the Party has put
up young advocate and DYFI state president, Raghuveer Verma from here.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha,
Sitaram Yechury campaigning for Verma, addressed an
impressive meeting at Dhan Mandi in Hanumangarh town.

Addressing
large and responsive crowd including big number of poor women, Yechury
terming BJP’s divisive politics, politics of Dussashan (ill-governance)
and Congress’s ruling class politics, politics of Sinhasan (throne),
appealed for strengthening politics of Jansashan (people’s rule)
represented by the CPI(M). Predicting a hung assembly Yechury also
called for sending larger number of CPI(M) members in the new assembly
so that opening is created for pushing ahead decisions and policies
favouring poor and working masses. Beside candidate Raghuveer Verma and
other local leaders , CPI(M) central secretariat member Hannan Mollah
and CPI(M) Haryana state secretary and central committee member
Inderjeet Singh also addressed the meeting.

Balwan Punia - Bhadra

Ridhrikaran - Nohar

Establishing
itself as the main political force fighting for people’s interests, one
of many sustained struggles CPI(M) has launched in this district is
that of NREGA workers. In a district where leaders of both leading
bourgeoisie parties actually want to see NREGA stalled to depress rural
wages, party has fought for keeping it going, expanding work under it,
increasing number of work days to 200 in a year and daily wage rate of
Rs. 300. No surprise that poor rural women workers, largely from
socially weaker section in large numbers are working actively for CPI(M)
candidates. Similar is story of scheme workers. Beside various issues
concerning peasantry, CPI(M) here has also taken up issues including
declaring district rice belt, utilizing Ghaghar water, making toll roads
more accessible to local rural people and even improving law and order
situation.

Balwan Punia, contesting from Bhadara
is said to have a distinct edge over his Congress and BJP rivals. A
recognized Kisan leader of the area, he has led the struggle on question
of water and electricity. Beside government repression for these
agitations, leading the fight against liquor mafia and it’s antisocial
activities, he has also faced a nearly fatal physical attack from the
same mafia. Besides large number of kisan workers, students and youth in
huge numbers are campaigning for CPI(M) candidate here. Last election
Punia had polled more than 15 thousand votes. CPI(M) district secretary
Rameshwar Verma said that Maniram, the party candidate from Pilibanga
and Jageet Singh Jaggi, the Party candidate from Sangaria are also
putting up a good fight.